The Right Reverend Robert Nelson Spencer | |
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Bishop of West Missouri | |
Church | Episcopal Church |
Diocese | West Missouri |
Elected | May 13, 1930 |
In office | 1930-1949 |
Predecessor | Sidney Catlin Partridge |
Successor | Edward R. Welles II |
Orders | |
Ordination | April 5, 1904 (deacon) June 4, 1905 (priest) by Frank Rosebrook Millspaugh |
Consecration | October 28, 1930 by William Theodotus Capers |
Personal details | |
Born | Tunnel, New York, U.S. | February 18, 1877
Died | July 19, 1961 Ludington, Michigan, U.S. | (aged 84)
Buried | Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Denomination | Anglican |
Parents | Nelson Horatio Spencer & Hannah E. Pratt |
Spouse |
Amy Frances Moffatt
(m. 1905; died 1954) |
Children | Kathleen Spencer |
Robert Nelson Spencer (February 18, 1877 – August 19, 1961) was a hymn writer and the third bishop of West Missouri in The Episcopal Church, serving from October 28, 1930, to 1949.